The Labor enquirer., 1887-12-10
TIE LEAGUE !
A Session Devoted = Ae Il1qz
ests Of ths Wldswp ~
Orphan
speeches, Rfsitstisas ~ lss1ins'
Of sa Interesting Char
aetsF.

Iuli hOoS~ 6s~o sA@S
Socialists at opening time On Sun
day night. After a song BY the
choir Comrade Callahan stated
that the evening would be devoted
10 the interests of the wives and
children left by the martyred men
whose lives had been sacrificed in
the cause Of the poor ofthe world.
II is our duty to provide for and
see that those widows and orphans
want nothing. The workers Of
the world will spare of their pit
tanee to clothe, feed and educate
those orphans as they will, with
out doubt, take an important part
in the labor drama of the future.
We would be untrue to ourselves
did we neglect to perform this oar
solemn duty.
Miss Emily Collar recited The
Reformer," the poem which Par
sons in his cell delighted to enter
tain his guards with. Miss Collar
rendered it cxcellently and re-
ceived warm applause.
Miss Mccarthy said thatwe owe
to those widows and orphans no
charity. We owe them justice
and sympathy; the justice of our
recognition of the tact that they
are widows and orphans for the
sake of the poor and oppressed.
Their protectors a were sacrificed
Sor us; they must and shall receive
four sympathy and protection.
They shall be our wards-the
wards of the people. The children
must be educated and made a
power which will help to strangle
capitalism in the near future.
Touching upon the charity"
which the rich bestow once a year
on the poor of the cities. the
speaker showed how it was always
bestowed with a flourish of trump
cts and a brass band attachment
by which the world was made
aware of the extreme goodness of
heart Of the better classes"
We want Justice not charity.
Our civilization is a lie. 1t edu-
Gates and compels man to cheat
his neighbor or starve; to practice
deception and be a rascal in his
dealings with his fellow-man.
Modern religion" and the art of
cheating and getting something
for nothing go hand in hand.
The Church and the Board of
Trade are joined by the bonds
that always unite the gamblers to
those who uphold them and share
in the proceeds Of their robbery.
Concluding Miss M. reiterated her
declaration that our duty was plain
in the matter of those left by the
martyred agitators.
Victor Hugo's Address to the
Rich and the Poor" was read by
Comrade Callahan, after which
Comrade John Schaefle reviewed
the history of the struggle in
which the lives of the men in Chi
cago have been sacrificed. The
same struggle is going on in every
country in the world and the same
methods ofrepression are adopted
by the tyrants Of every land. The
ear has hung and sent to Siberia
thousands Of the flower of Rus
sian manhood and. womanbood,
yet the struggle of the people
goes on. Is Nihilism deadl No!
NlhlllSm grows stronger as its
martyrs blood flows faster. Forty
thousand men, women and chill
dIenwere slaughtered in the streets
oi Paris seventeen years ago in
order that the uprising spirit of
TIE common people might be
crushed. Is it crushed1 No; it
va stronger power to-day than
eyer before. ---..
bismarck h,s tried to kill So
''aNsm in Germany but it grows
a stronger and stronger under his
persecution, So it always has
oeen with a new idea founded on